Deck 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gender: Competing Images of Women

Question 1

A group of women engages in conscious raising "rap" sessions.During the rap sessions,women talk about personal experiences with sexism and how these are related to social and political structures.Each woman has an equal opportunity to speak,so that no one person can dominate the discussion.This group best represents which branch of feminism?

A) radical feminists
B) liberal feminists
C) womanists
D) separatists
E) revalorists

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What factors led to the development of liberal feminism?

A) the discrimination women experienced in New Left politics
B) the publication of Susan Faludi's Backlash
C) the public protest at which women burned their bras
D) the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
E) a desire to bring women's moral perspectives to politics

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Radical feminists were the first to declare that "the personal is political."

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of the following are accomplishments of the National Organization for Women (NOW)?

A) advocacy for the prohibition of sex discrimination by federal contractors
B) the documentation of sexism in the media
C) advocacy for the reformation of banking and credit practices that disadvantage women
D) highlighting gender inequality across the globe
E) all of the above

Question 5

Revalorism highlights women's traditional activities and contributions and works to increase society's appreciation of women and their contributions to society.

Question 6

Revalorists choose to leave mainstream society and form separate communities that value women and are in harmony with nature.

Question 7

Women won the right to vote in 1920 in part because of the efforts of the members of the ______________ movement,a group that asserted women's moral superiority.

A) Seneca Falls Convention
B) Revalorists
C) Cult of Domesticity
D) Women's Suffrage Coalition
E) National Organization for Women

Question 8

What was/were the goal/s of the first wave of the women's rights movement?

A) woman suffrage-the right to vote
B) women's right to higher education
C) women's right to work in the professions
D) women's right to own property
E) all of the above

Question 9

What types of strategies were used by the first wave of women's rights activists in the United States?

A) riots
B) nonviolent protests and hunger strikes
C) pamphlets
D) violent protests
E) all of the above

Question 10

Which wave of feminism focuses on intersectionality,coalitions and alliances,everyday resistance,media savvy,consumerism,and individualism?

A) third wave
B) second wave
C) first wave
D) power feminism
E) none of these

Question 11

Liberal feminist ideology claims that women and men are alike in all important respects and so should have equal rights.

Question 12

This feminist movement believes the key to understanding gender and identity is best understood by examining the intersection of key elements of identity like gender,race-ethnicity,sexual orientation,and economic class.This best describes which branch of feminism?

A) lesbian feminism
B) revalorism
C) womanism
D) multiracial feminism
E) none of the above

Question 13

Power feminism claims that women identifying as victims so frequently is part of the reason women are disadvantaged.

Question 14

Which feminist group emphasizes that all oppressions-including those to nonhuman living things-are linked and that to eliminate oppression of women we must also eliminate oppression of animals and the environment?

A) revalorists
B) ecofeminists
C) lesbian feminists
D) womanists
E) separatists

Question 15

Intersectionality,the recognition that women differ in many ways including race,class, sexual orientation,body shape and size,and (dis)ability,is a hallmark of first-wave feminism.

Question 16

Womanists address issues that affect working and lower-class women.

Question 17

There is a common set of beliefs that all feminists share.

Question 18

Which antifeminist movement advocated the return to traditional values,attitudes,and roles,and was most often supported by women who were economically dependent on their husbands who embraced conservative values?

A) STOP ERA
B) Fascinating Womanhood
C) Surrendered Wife
D) Backlash
E) Both B and C

Question 19

Women burned their bras to protest the Miss America pageant in 1968.

Question 20

Multiracial femininsts argue that gender cannot be understood separate from other issues including race,ethnicity,class,sexual orientation,etc.

Question 21

Cultural feminist ideology

Question 22

Third-wave feminism

Question 23

Describe separatism and why it is limited in its power as a feminist movement.

Question 24

Explain the unique contributions of the women's rights movement and the cult of domesticity movement to first-wave feminism.

Question 25

Liberal feminist ideology

Question 26

Some third-wave feminists embrace sexiness and femininity as part of being empowered.What is your position on this issue? Defend your stance.

Question 27

"Ain't I a Woman?"

Question 28

Some second-wave feminists have criticized the younger generation of third-wave feminists for being too focused on consumerism and lacking a clear central message.Based on the characteristics of the movement described in your textbook,do you think these criticisms are valid? Why or why not? What are the differing motivations behind the two waves that could account for this criticism?

Question 29

Compare and contrast third-wave feminism and multiracial feminism.In your essay,note similarities as well as differences between the two movements' values,goals,principles,and demographics of membership.

Question 30

Young feminists used social media like Twitter and Facebook to force the SusanG.Komen foundation to reverse its decision to defund Planned Parenthood in 2012.

Question 31

NOW

Question 32

Power feminism